I have a P3-800 with two IDE drives in a software RAID1 configuration. Each drive is on a separate IDE channel. Now anytime there is HD activity, I hear "beeps" and "cutting out" on a call using the X100P card.
I ran the zttest program, and discovered HD activity would drop the accuracy down to between 2% and 50%.
However I noticed if I disabled one drive in the RAID1 array, zttest
would always report 99.98% or higher. So one drive running works fine,
but as soon as I enable the second drive, all hell breaks loose. DMA and
32-bit mode are enabled on both drives as well.
Hey, I've heard that beeping too... but I never bothered to track it down until I read your message. No dropouts, however.
I have a backup server with two Promise PCI IDE controllers in it, with
4 drives in a software RAID5 configuration, so just out of curiosity
sake, I stuck a X100P card in it and tried running zttest while the RAID
was re-syncing. The results were pretty bad.
--- Results after 384 passes --- Best: 36.779785 -- Worst: 1.562500
Is this a poor mainboard issue, or is it actually not possible to do IDE
software RAID on a machine running Asterisk with X100P cards?
Is anyone currently doing it?
I am. My system is a Duron 1200 with an Asus A7V266 board. I have an Athlon XP 2200 that I was planning on upgrading to. I am using the onboard IDE channels; the only cards in the server are video, ethernet, and two X100P's. No IRQ sharing. Three drives in RAID5; two of the drives are master/slave on one channel, the other shares a channel with a CD drive.
I'll run the same tests you did and report back with the results.
-- Seth "cave quid dicis, quando, et cui" Mattinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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